April in the Boston area means many things. The Boston Marathon, the beginning of baseball season, and -- hopefully -- a bit of a respite from the ridiculously cold and snowy winter we've been having.
This April will mean one more thing: A full-day, free SQL Server event featuring 30 top-notch sessions.
SQL Saturday 71 will be the third ...

If you're reading this blog, you're undoubtedly already familiar with Kalen Delaney. She's been writing the premier internals book series for Microsoft since SQL Server 7.0, teaching SQL Server for many years before that, and is known as one of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to how SQL Server works and the art of applying ...

Just a quick post to let you know that there are still some seats available for Andy Leonard's ''From Zero to SSIS'' course, running October 6-8 in Waltham, MA.
To help move the final seats we're offering a great discount to companies that are interested in sending more than one student. If you send two people, each seat will be reduced by $700, ...

If you've been working with SQL Server for long, you are no doubt familiar with the work of Andy Leonard. Andy is a true master of the art and science of data extraction, transformation, and loading. And as his recent blog series on the software business shows, he has also fine-tuned the art of dealing with the many types of people you're likely ...

We have just two weeks to go before Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp touch down in the Boston area to deliver their famous SQL Server Immersions course. This is going to be a truly fantastic SQL Server learning experience and we're hoping a few more people will join in the fun.
This is where you come in: we have a few vacant seats remaining and we ...

If you've been looking for advanced training in the northeast, your wait is over. Paul and Kimberly will be gracing us with one of their famous ''SQL Server Immersion'' events the week of March 29.
This course will cover storage engine internals, indexing and performance strategies, and of course in-depth sections on database maintenance from the ...

In case you missed Kalen's post, we're excited to announce that she will be joining us here on the East Coast in October to deliver her SQL Server 2005/2008 Internals and Query Tuning seminar. This is, to my knowledge, the most advanced public SQL Server course to be offered in the Boston area in the last 5 years, and this is the first time that ...